Shirt



(No Model.)

S. STERNBERGER.

SHIRT.

Patented June 13, 1882.

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SAMUEL STERNBERGER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 259,431, dated June 13, 1882.

Application filed May 1, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it inay concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL STERNBERGER a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful 11nprovement in Shirts, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of a shirt embodying my invention. FigspZ, 3, and 4 are horizontal sections enlarged, showing different steps of making the portion of the shirt embodying my invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures. My invention relates to improvements in shirts having the sides of the bosoms sprung or set out from the body; and it consists of a novel mode of forming said sprun g or set-out sides, whereby they are produced in a simple, convenient, and inexpensive manner, there is a saving of linen, and the edges of the sides being of the material of the bosom and folded are strong and durable.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the side pieces of the body of the shirt, and B the bosom thereof. The sides of the piece constitutin g the bosom are stitched .to the side pieces of the body, as at a, so that when the pieces A are straightened out, as shown in Fig. 2, the edges of the two parts will appear at what corresponds with the inside of the shirt. The side pieces, A, of the body are now folded back of the bosom on the line of stitches a. (see the right-hand side of Fig. 3) and the side pieces and bosom are stitched through near the fold, as at d, (see left-hand side of said figure,) after which the side pieces are opened out, as in Fig. 4, thus developing the sprung or set-out sides of the bosom.

It will be seen that the edges 0 of the sprungout sides are folded and formed of linen con tinuous of the bosom, thus increasing the strength and consequent wear of said edges, and that the linen extends but a short distance inwardly from the folded edge, whereby there is a saving of said material. Furthermore, the set-out sides are backed with muslin, which sufficiently strengthens and stift'ens the backs of said sides without, however, exposing the muslin to view or wear from the front of the bosom, it being seen that the rear folded edges, 0, of the muslin are overlapped or set inwardly, or do not project as fully as the front folded edges, 0, of linen, and the cut edges of the fabric of the shirt and sides A are concealed and guarded by the folded material between the two lines of stitches a d.

It will also be seen that the sprung-out sides are easily and conveniently and rapidly formed,

'thereby saving time and expense.

If desired, after the bosom andside pieces are stitched, as at a, the connected fabrics may be folded on the line of said stitches, and the adjacent portions of the side pieces folded back of the sides of the bosom, the stitches (1 then being formed without, however, altering the sprung-out sides of the bosom or the folded edges 0 thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The bosom connected to the side pieces of the body by the rows of stitches a and the rows of stitches d, which latter are within the line of the former, producing the sprung out sidesof the bosom, the front edges, 0, whereof are folded and formed of the material of the bosom, and the rear folded edges are formed 'of the material of the side pieces, the latter material backing the sprung-out sides of the bosom, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. Y

2. The sprung-out sides having the folded edges 0 0, the front edges, 0, overlapping the rear edges,c, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

SAMUEL STERNBERGER.

Witnesses:

J OHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, A. P. GRANT. 

